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The first soil studies in the Bieszczady mountains were conducted
within the framework of the project The Map of Soils of Poland by
Dobrzanski (1963). Later works by Uziak (1963a, 1963b, 1969)
concentrated of the origin and properties of brown soils and their
relationship with the land relief.
The greatest amount of
information was supplied in a paper by Adamczyk and Zarzycki (1963),
where the diversity of soils was described and related to the plant
communities (principally forest communities). Soils in the former
arable lands were studied by Brozek (1992). In 1992–1996, detailed
cartographic/soil surveys were developed in connection with drawing the
Plan for the protection of the Bieszczady National Park. The soil map
for the Park at 1 : 10 000 scale (Skiba et al., MS), developed using
digital methods, was printed in several copies as an appendix to the
“Documentation dossier for the protection of the abiotic resources of
the Bieszczady National Park”. Various papers, based on the reports for
the Plan were published:
— on the relationship between plant communities and soils (Michalik, Skiba 1995, Skiba, Winnicki 1995),
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on the various properties and systematics of soils (Skiba 1995, Skiba
et al. 1995, Drewnik 1996, Skiba, Sobiecki 1996, Szmuc 1996, Skiba
1998, Skiba et al. 1998a).
The
soils of the Bieszczady Park were also given a monographic and
comprehensive treatment, published with a 1 : 50 000 scale map (Skiba
at al. 1998b), which appeared in the Park’s publication series
“Bieszczady Monographs”. A simplified picture of the soil cover in the
Bieszczady Park can be viewed on a soil map drawn in accordance with
FAO systematics.
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Bieszczadzki
Soils 
